As a result, he is blackmailed by members of the Network and is forced to complete tasks for them. Paul Higgins as Michael Dugdale, a senior civil servant who, while having an affair with Anya, a Russian prostitute, gets her pregnant.He is later framed for a mass murder at a school by Arby and is forced to go on the run. Originally pretending to be 24 years old on the forum the group first contact each other on, Grant ends up with the Utopia manuscript which he later hides with Alice, a girl he meets. Oliver Woollford as Grant Leetham, a troubled 11-year-old boy.After learning of what Janus' true purpose is from Letts, he begins to doubt whether or not the group is right and eventually chooses to side with The Network. He is tortured by Arby and Lee on Jessica's whereabouts and has his right eye gouged out with a spoon by Lee. Adeel Akhtar as Wilson Wilson, a survivalist geek and conspiracy theorist.Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Ian Johnson, an IT consultant in his late twenties, who still lives with his mother.She is revealed to have the mysterious Deel's syndrome, for which she has been taking medication to stop the symptoms. Convinced there is a conspiracy surrounding her father's death connected to the Utopia manuscript, she is determined to find out the truth. Her mother died when she was young in her late teens, her father contracted a mysterious illness. Alexandra Roach as Becky, a soon-to-be post-grad student.It is later revealed that she also carried the Janus protein in her. Her father, Philip Carvel, created the Utopia manuscripts. Fiona O'Shaughnessy as Jessica Hyde, a woman who has been on the run from The Network for as long as she can remember.Using the manuscript, they must uncover the meaning hidden in its pages before the disasters depicted become reality. This leads them to be targeted by an organisation known as The Network, which they must avoid to survive. The story follows a small group of people who find themselves in possession of the manuscript sequel of a cult graphic novel called The Utopia Experiments, which is rumoured to have predicted the worst disasters of the last century. Main article: List of Utopia episodes Series An American adaptation was planned for HBO, but budget disputes between HBO and director David Fincher led to the project being cancelled in July 2015. On 9 October 2014, it was revealed by the official Utopia Twitter feed (and later by Channel 4) that there would not be a third series.

Series 2 started airing with a double-bill spread over two nights on Monday 14 July and Tuesday 15 July 2014. A second six-episode series was commissioned by Channel 4 and went into production in late 2013. The show is written by Dennis Kelly and stars Fiona O'Shaughnessy, Adeel Akhtar, Paul Higgins, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Alexandra Roach, Oliver Woollford, and Neil Maskell. Utopia is a British thriller drama action television series that was broadcast on Channel 4 from 15 January 2013 to 12 August 2014.

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